More than twenty years after reinvented the zombie film with the excellent 28 days laterDanny Boyle does it again with 28 years laterready to go out on June 18. As we explained to you at the start of the school year, Boyle has chosen to use iPhone 15 Pro Max to shoot his feature film. For lack of taste? Absolutely not, it is A bias, both technical and aestheticperfectly in accordance with what this saga of modern cinema represents.
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The iPhone: the camera of the Zombie Apocalypse
From the first installment in 2002, Boyle and the screenwriter Alex Garland had already made a radical choice for the time: shooting digital with CANGER public DV cameras. A choice that gave the film This raw and quasi-documentary textureas if the images had been captured by survivors in full disaster. The atmosphere of the film was stifling, glaring of truth and blurred the border between cinema and reality as did RA (2007) or Cloverfield (2008).
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Twenty years later, the idea remains the same, except that in the meantime, the consumer cameras were completely replaced by smartphones. “” At the time, people would have filmed with their camcorders. Today they would use their phone Summarizes Boyle. That’s why, 28 years later So incorporates sequences filmed directly into the iPhone. We must see this evolution as an extension of This aesthetic of immediate and visceral capture.
Push the limits of the iPhone
As you can suspect, Boyle and his team did not hold naked ipone at arm’s length to shoot their film. For some action scenes, the director had built rigsspecialized fixing or assembly systems designed to maintain and stabilize one or more cameras. The rigs made for 28 years later can embark eight, 10, even 20 iPhone simultaneously.
The goal is to create an effect close to the famous ” bullet time »Popularized by the series of Matrix. “” I’m never saying that, but there is an incredible plan in the second half of the film with the Rig with 20 iPhone; you will recognize it when you see it “Confides Boyle.
Mounted on a crane or dolly (a wheel cart on which the camera is set up), the system allows you to capture a scene under 180 degrees, each iPhone therefore offering a different angle of view. In post-production, the editors can then go from one angle to another, freeze action, or create time jumps to accentuate the violence of the scenes. What dive the spectator in the heart of chaosmuch better than if the scene had been cut by a classic montage.
In addition to these technical choices, The team used other artifices : Capture by drones, cameras embarked on the actors (first -person view in horror films is terrible efficiency) or even on animals. Total immersion guaranteed!
Even better: the whole film was assembled In ultra-large 2.76 format: 1which will force us to scrutinize the smallest corners of the image. Perfect for accentuating the anxiety of a potential threat which would be played out of our field of vision. Just over two weeks before the film’s release, we will know if these more than original choice choices will bear fruit. A point that should reassure experienced moviegoers: Doyle’s filmography is almost a flawless. See you on June 18 in dark rooms to be clear.
- Danny Boyle returns with 28 years laterand continues to innovate by integrating iPhone from the shooting.
- This choice is in line with the first film, which already used consumer cameras for a raw and immersive style.
- Special devices equipped with several iPhones allow unique visual effects, plunging the spectator at the heart of the action.
By: keleops ag
